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- Schertz turns 50 with three-day party (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Some choose to downplay their 50th birthday. Not Schertz.
- Seminole author to speak at event (Miami Herald)
It would be fair to consider Moses Jumper Jr. a Renaissance Man. He owns a 500-herd of cattle on Big Cypress. He's also a storyteller, poet, children's book writer, an athlete and recreation director for his Seminole Tribe.
- A Kentucky tax exile - La Crosse Tribune
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine visited me here in Wisconsin. He lives in Kentucky. He was amazed and impressed at our infrastructure here in Wisconsin: The roads were in good condition, and everything looked well kept, compared to Kentucky ...
- Making mix discs for your creeptastic party? Pick from our ... - SunJournal.com
Making mix discs for your creeptastic party? Pick from our ...SunJournal.com, ME - 40 minutes agoTo add sheer terror, place Morrison's howl of poetry reading "Horse Latitudes" just before it. (From "Strange Days," 1968) Well, short of "Monster Mash" it ...
- Poet Dylan was 'worked to death' - BBC News
BBC NewsPoet Dylan was 'worked to death'BBC News, UK - 5 hours agoThomas was in New York to take part in a play of Under Milk Wood at the city's Poetry Center. Mr Thomas said Brinnin knew Dylan Thomas was ill, ...
- All you need to know . . . about the American election - Winnipeg Sun
All you need to know . . . about the American electionWinnipeg Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoA: Other than he apparently likes poetry and can play the fiddle, he's related to an early Scottish king. Q What's the most unusual trivia dug up about John ...
- Antonia Fraser to Jackie Kay: writers and politicians pick the best books of 2008 (Guardian Unlimited)
Antonia Fraser By far the best novel I read this year was Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture (what on earth were the Booker judges thinking about?). I have always admired Barry's work, both on stage and off it, but I feel this is the finest thing he has done. The book has two narratives, one being the story of a very old woman indeed, possibly over a hundred, and the other the doctor ...
- The music of Hunter S. Thompson (The Buffalo News)
“You might say Thompson craved the screech of the locomotive tracks and the silence of the backwoods -- anything but the blase gray land known as neutral.”
- Gray: One more columnist weighs in on the election - The Saratogian
Gray: One more columnist weighs in on the electionThe Saratogian, NY - 9 hours agoMario Cuomo once said: “We campaign in poetry and govern in prose.” When Obama speaks, it is poetry and I can listen all day. But we don’t have all day, ...
- The bird of gardens sang unto the rose: Happy Hafez Day (Payvand Iran News)
Iranians annually celebrate the Hafez Day on October 11, during which they gather and hold talks on the poetry, thoughts, and life of Hafez. Hafez was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310 and 1337 in Shiraz, Medieval Persia.
- Mugshot frontman breaks out on own (Orillia Packet & Times)
Tomorrow night the Orillia Folk Society has a great show lined up for the monthly Friday Folk concert series. Nick Keays is opening the gig [...]
- Poetry power: Bob Dylan names Burns as inspiration - The Herald
Poetry power: Bob Dylan names Burns as inspirationThe Herald, UK - 3 hours agoDylan was asked to name the lyric or verse that has had the greatest impact on his life. He selected the 1794 love song A Red, Red Rose, penned by Burns, ...
- Rote-learning poetry competition launched by BBC - Daily Telegraph
Primary school children will recite poems such as Daffodils by William Wordsworth and The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear in the competition, called Off By Heart. More than 1,000 schools have signed up for so far. Organisers are hoping to emulate ...
- Veterans Day Events Remember Those Who Serve - Leesburg Today
Veterans Day Events Remember Those Who ServeLeesburg Today, VA - 12 hours agoBy Margaret Morton Particularly when the country is at war and residents at home worry about family members fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, Veterans Day ...
- Konstantin Pavlov, one of Bulgaria's most prominent poets, dies at age ... - Daily Press
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) _ Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria's most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country's communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75. Pavlov died Sunday after ...
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